cas callbacking with peoplefinder

roomlist/accounts/cas_callbacks.py

@@ -4,6 +4,21 @@ from accounts.models import Student
 
 from django.conf import settings
 
+import requests
+
+def pfinfo(uname):
+    base_url = "http://peoplefinder.b1.akshaykarthik.com/"
+    url = base_url + "basic/all/" + str(uname)
+    try:
+        metadata = requests.get(url)
+        metadata.raise_for_status()
+    except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
+        print e
+    else:
+        pfjson = metadata.json()
+        name = pfjson['results'][0]['name']
+        return name.split(',')
+
 def create_user(tree):
 
     username = tree[0][0].text
@@ -11,7 +26,13 @@ def create_user(tree):
 
     if user_created:
         user.email = "%s@%s" % (username, settings.ORGANIZATION_EMAIL_DOMAIN)
+
+        name_list = pfinfo(username)
+        user.first_name = name_list[1].rstrip()
+        user.last_name = name_list[0]
+
         user.save()
+
         new_student = Student.objects.create(user=user)
         new_student.save()